Learning lessons is hard sometimes. I do not like making mistakes and I especially do not like making mistakes when they negatively affect someone else. To the best of my ability, for the past several years, I’ve been practicing a spiritual process scrutinizing faulty...

An elder friend of mine, who has long since passed, a couple decades ago passed along a term I oft used in the past but all but forgot about, until recently. She was a diminutive woman – mild mannered, patient and pressing for the positive. Some time in my...

My daughter gave me ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama for Christmas. It is a rare thing to get an ‘over the kitchen table’ 300+ page talk of another’s life, at once remarkable and down to earth. Our former first lady writes of a full and...